Definitions for onwards

onwards on·ward

Spelling: [on-werd, awn-]
IPA: /ˈɒn wərd, ˈɔn-/

Onwards is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 220 anagrams from letters in onwards (adnorsw).

Definitions for onwards

adverb

  1. toward a point ahead or in front; forward, as in space or time.
  2. at a position or point in advance.

adjective

  1. directed or moving onward or forward; forward.

Origin of onwards

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at on, -ward

Examples for onwards

He it was who dominated completely Prussian policy from 1862 onwards.

But from 1751 onwards, they were only held once in two years.

Follow in the steps of Heracles, our guide, and cheer each the other onwards by name.

But this will not mean that we drive ever onwards towards greater sexual freedom--rather, it will mean quite the reverse.

From the time of the "Krpitsa" onwards a regular colonization began.

Of the monarchs from 1173 onwards who were not here crowned, Henry IV.

From the 80s onwards, after manufacturing collapsed, the inner cities were awash with hard drugs.

Yet hearing, greater does she weep, that she must onwards go.

onwards it goes, with scarcely a perceptible serpentine movement.

A thread of anxiety started its twist into my stomach as the bus wound ever onwards into the dense blackness of night.

Word Value for onwards
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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